Parallel and Distributed Programming Using C++

Chapter 1. The Joys of Concurrent Programming

	“I suspect that concurrency is best supported by a library and that such a library can be implemented without major language extensions.”
	--Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C++

In this Chapter

• What is Concurrency?

• The Benefits of Parallel Programming

• The Benefits of Distributed Programming

• The Minimal Effort Required

• The Basic Layers of Software Concurrency

• No Keyword Support for Parallelism in C++

• Programming Environments for Parallel and Distributed Programming

• Summary—Toward Concurrency

The software development process now requires a working knowledge of parallel and distributed programming. The requirement for a piece of software to work properly over the Internet, on an intranet, or over some network is ...